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"Aren’t you already an expert in both of those areas?" I whisper back

"Yeah It would be an easy A, you know?"

I roll my eyes, but can’t help but se paper about where we see ourselves in five years, and everybody starts groaning

"Where will you be in five years? Still in college? Grad school? In theat the car factory?" The teacher looks aton a fare paper"

"Two pages?" Rory whines

"Oh, just write that you want to be a gynecologist," Vanessaat that, and Vanessa ser then faces the whiteboard

Jack slips his pen behind his ear and leans across the aisle toward ain "I hope this class has a lesson on how to decide if you want a tattoo or not"

"Ha!" I laugh, blushing

"Do you have a tattoo?" he murmurs

"Maybe…If you tell my dad, I’ll kill you"

He holds his hands up "Your secret is safe…as long as you tell me what this tattoo is and where it’s located" His eyescolder," I whisper when he starts eyeing ?"

"You’re getting even colder"

"Is it a dragon?"

"Brr You’re really cold"

He grins "Dammit, tellaround, looking me up and down "You have a tattoo?"

"Shhhhhhhhh!" says sohs "Face the front of the room please, Jack and Rory"

Rory swirls around Jack stretches his legs out to either side of the desk in front of hi to eye me Dad would kill

I honestly can’t believe I told Jack about the horseshoe tattoo on my hip Maybe a little part of irl that can be pushed around

Truly though? Maybe I want him to think of me as sexy

If Pie Cured Confusion

Between periods, I’m disappointed to discover that Rory and I aren’t in the sa, and of course he’d rather do that than eat withalone

When I head into the cafeteria, I find Jack slipping quarters into the Coke er and fries I skirt the edge of the cafeteria and make a break for the picnic tables in the courtyard Outside I grab a seat in the corner, unsnap , and pull out a sandwich, carrots, a cookie, a juice carton, and one of those soups you can drink

I open one of Mom’s history books--A Compendiu her books ht here besidethe section where I left off It’s about Robert Frost It says one of his most famous poems is "The Road Not Taken" I don’t completely understand some of the lines in the poem, but the last sectionthis with a sigh

Soed in a wood, and I--

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has hted that one section in yellow Did she feel like she lived life to the fullest? Did she take the right path for her? I bite into

That’s when I hear hi over my sandwich "Roast beef"

He straddles the picnic table bench and sits "Split it withobnoxiously

He laughs At school he’s so different froet the lunch?"

"Yvonne," I say through a mouthful

"Yvonne made you lunch?"

"She did"

"She’s never made me a lunch"

"Probably because you’ve never asked her to, brainiac"

"I’ll be speaking with her as soon as I get hoht and pops open his Coke "I want a roast beef sandwich"